Daniel Libeskind Quotes
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.
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I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it's really liberating. I recommend it. It's just very easy. I don't have to brush it.
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My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
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And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
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Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.
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It sounds really corny but every film that you do is its own journey, it's its own experience, it's its own thing. Often you think it's going to be one way and then it goes another way - you think you can chart a character and then other things happen. That's the amazing thing about our jobs, it's constantly changing and it's extremely dynamic and you therefore have to be dynamic as well.
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As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
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Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
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it seems Montgomery could not help himself when it came to this vase. I'm afraid he has a weakness for beautiful things and has been known to relocate an item if he feels it is not being accorded the proper appreciation. Once he 'relocated' an ancient sculpture from the home of another archangel.
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I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.
